The American Dream…ACT I

America is the place to fulfill your dreams. This has always been the case since the country was young and raw. People would come to this country and place roots in her soil and grow something amazing. Peasants could start a family where their children had a chance for a better life than they had in “the old country”, middle class people from foreign lands could finally own their land, start and control a small business and enjoy the freedom to have something real, and the rich could become wealthy.

Actually it is that last part that really counts. All classes of people want the good life. I have yet to hear anyone say,”I have too much money, take some of it from me by force and give it those who do nothing for it because they are lazy.”

I do see and hear of the rich giving in monumental dollar amounts to those who are in need. That’s the key here, need, not want.

If there are wants you want, you will have to earn them in America. That too is part of the American Dream. Harvest what you sow. In many foreign lands the government will simply take that which they deem necessary and to hell with the rightful owner, because there, they are the rightful owner.

Then there is this part of the dream, that my kids might have a better life than I have. Regardless of where you came here from, or if you were born here, we all (generally) want a better life for our kids. It is this point which keeps most people focused in life and wanting to succeed.

But there are a few small minor rules to the American Dream. Among them is your desire. If you lack desire you may well never achieve your desired result. Unfortunately nobody can teach you desire. Desire might be characterized as drive, ambition or even the will to succeed. Without these traits you might well want to consider moving to a foreign country where can be cared for by the government. Keep in mind, you will forfeit all your standing here in this country but you are there for the free ride, not the luxuries in life so you’ll adapt well I’m sure.

One more small but relatively well known rule, at least until the last 30 years or so was your legal status. Dr. Martin Luther King said of his dream that “one day my children might be judged not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”

What do you think the good doctor would think of people who come here illegally? Would he judge them by the color of their skin? Surely not. But might he judge them by the content of their character? I believe so. And I have to question the character of anyone who would bring their children into a country knowing that they are going to be lacking the needed legal status to fully succeed in that country. What these parents are doing is stealing from their children the opportunity to succeed.

Now Debbie of Phoenix tries so very hard to make us all except this character flaw in these so called immigrants, these economic refugees as some would classify them, or even asylum deserving defectors, but to no avail. These people have broken the laws of the United States because they have questionable character. The very fact that they are here illegally should be enough for anyone to identify the trait in them. They will lie, obfuscate and falsify themselves for the betterment of whom? Certainly not their beloved children, because if that were the real reason for coming they would have requested, waited for and accepted some form of legal status in this country.

Folks, the very idea that Americans should or would accept an attempted force feeding of illegal activity shoved down out collective throats under the guise of humanitarianism are an abrupt and oversold insult of both our intelligence and our pity. We Americans are capable of doing so much good around the world and do it every day without a request for so much as a thank you. We feed nearly half the worlds population and immunize even more from infectious diseases, clean up contaminated water for drinking, dig wells, and generally assist almost every country on earth in some financial or other charitable way, yet we don’t do enough about people have blatantly broken out laws.

Debbie insults us in so grand a way. All she really had to do was say, “Thank You, I’ll help those I want to help get here by legal means so they too can prosper in America, the only place on earth where they can still fulfill all their dreams with little more than a desire to achieve. It would be wrong to ask more than that of this great country”.